live. tonight as the christmas presents get on rub her son to been reading the wish lists of european leaders we try to find out. israel signs off on twelve hundred more such as in east jerusalem as it continues to defy global condemnation in the aftermath of palestine if you are an upgrade. on the new pro islam is constitution passes the referendum in egypt more violence is fear as the opposition will not stop fighting against.

hello it's care and i would hear thanks for being with us hope you have a good christmas if you're celebrating our top story tonight then santa has been doing the rounds he's been very busy and hopefully you've been getting what you want for christmas although of course there has been more window shopping it seems and people actually parting with their hard earned cash this time around even the catholic church is tighten its belt this year with the pope holding a more spartan mass and some peter's basilica cost for this year's more frugal is typically seen were mostly picked up by donors as for elsewhere around europe peter all of us been looking at whether the wishlist of those in charge could be just too much for santa those little households. it's a time of goodwill and cheer and giving and for one particularly jolly gent it's busiest time of the year but santa has taken a little bit of time out from delivering presents to the boys and girls to join me here in central. well you have not come on the sled that i see you know it's just

to say where it's more comfortable you know keeping within the twenty first century there and you've got some letters from the boys and girls that you're going to share with us something here ok oh right now this one has come from a little boy in. grace he says exactly what he wants for christmas for twenty thirty. dear santa for christmas i would really like a fiscal policy which would see my country's debt be reducing one hundred twenty four percent of our annual output by twenty twenty i know that this is a big ask but it will stop the international monetary fund getting even more annoyed with us although we didn't make the whole thirty billion euros worth of savings we promised just recently we did try very hard to yours dimitri said marise . well who else has been writing to you oh well this one has come from somebody not

too far away from where we are right now this is come from a little girl and bert lynn with her christmas wishes for twenty thirty dear santa thank you for the positive economic growth i asked for last year it has been very helpful this year it would be great if we could have more of the same just is there a way we can give less of our money away to the eurozone countries all the best angle in merkel p.s. i also want to win the general election next year thank you of course you get letters from little boys and girls from all over the world these drones just from here in europe produce this from us once come from from paris from a little boy who says this well all of his famous friends keep running off and leaving him. it would be great if this year knew more of our super rich followed deputy you and left france we really need their seventy five percent income taxes if we are to stay with the likes of angola and i'll find ourselves in

the same trouble as demetrius thank you francois hollande. oh right well this one comes from a little boy who has been on the naughty list in the past but he insists he's going to be good in the future sounds here's the thing i want to be prime minister again i know there were some problems last time however now i'm ready to step back in and leave this lead to success quite possibly out of the euro sincerely silvio berlusconi well we'll have to wait to see if their christmas wishes come true but santa did you get my letter yes was i on the nice list you're in minority list. peter all of a bird. has been tracing europeans in steady battles all here will remind you of what we witnessed later on this hour. festive spirit takes on

a whole new meaning for britain's police and hospital staff as christmas revellers down a few too many drinks for some it means spending the holidays in a cell or even a ward r.t. serve out among the party goers this year. well it's a season to be merry but for some of us perhaps a little t. merry but the christmas period once again upon us brings awareness campaigns a warning people to be careful about how much they drink over the holiday period now in the last couple of years we've seen the figures increasing so the number of alcohol related injuries and we continue in the u.k. to pay too high a price for alcohol abuse now every year is costing the n.h.s. millions of pounds in dealing with the people who are coming three the hospitals and in the build up to christmas it really puts a strain on services such as the police and searches are ambulances now that's a very sobering thought indeed we've come to the north of england to newcastle to

go out on the town and views of a sensitive nature might want to look away now because we've been joining some people getting into the festive spirit to find out whether they're going to be drinking responsibly plus a typical night. pretty flowery but it is actually very yeah and there's a thing with the underage drinking to feel that young people who drink responsibly . know. that hello no everyone just gets up. oh boy he thinks. he's a stress. and. drink responsibly yeah yeah well sometimes i'm not but i. i'm not tonight because of the good night out with a drink response report on or accusing you or heard tell me your school while you can also. see a part for these guys you want to be

a prophet of god when you want to get more responsible over that you just want are you know results soon people are over the age of twenty five not really both. because the people that we've been speaking to here tonight have told us that we can. for christmas they have a day nicknamed blackeye friday a reference to the number of fights that break out here t.t. excessive drinking this is why a campaign is a calling on the government to really tighten up their policies to make sure that we keep seeing these increases in alcohol abuse in the k. through their part the government this year have really tried to target the sale of cheap alcohol campaign is a really calling on people to be very careful about how much they drink over the festive period surface r.t. because the israel's give the green light to building over twelve hundred new settler homes in east jerusalem on land which is considered illegally occupied under international law has in addition to the already approved construction of

thousands of houses in the west bank in retaliation of the palestinians u.n. status upgrade or middle east correspondent paula slee reports. what we're witnessing is that israel is continuing with its expansion of settlements and this new announcement is that it has approved the building of some one thousand two hundred new secure homes in globe which is a neighborhood in east jerusalem across the green line it comes in less than a month after israel's controversial statement that it was planning to build in the one corridor which links jerusalem to the west bank and this is a real line for many states and certainly we've witnessed that kind of criticism and condemnation from the international community since the palestinians went to the united nations several weeks ago for upgraded statehood there have been some five and a half thousand new secure homes announced in terms of what the israelis were building israel has undergone as i say strong international criticism for these announcements with many in the international community voicing their intense

displeasure at these actions by the jewish state in fact the israel's closest ally which is the united states in a rare and blunt move said it is well was engaging in to quote a pattern of provocative action by continuing with settlement expansionist plans domestically the kind of statements that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is making with his proposal and plan to go ahead with the settlement building is current favorite among the israeli left certainly he is appealing to right wing voters and according to all the polls he is likely to win the next parliamentary election so these kind of statements are playing into an election that is say to happen about a month from now at the same time netanyahu has largely rebuffed the criticism from the international community saying that you receive them is the eternal capital of the state of israel and will continue to build them a united to see them he says expresses a wide national agreement and certainly this is the kind of sentiment that is

feeding into the israeli public and then there is of course some. school of thought that points back to two thousand and five when israelis withdrew from settlements in the gaza strip where some critics are asking whether or not all of the fear at the moment will ultimately lead to the same kind of conclusion the question mark over whether or not in the future israel will have to withdraw from the settlements that it is announcing today it's planning on building fall asleep or they're listening to talk to dr ron pundak co-chair of the palestinian israeli peace and geo and former director of the paris center for peace thanks for being with us much appreciated this christmas night here the palestinians went to the u.n. to unilaterally ask for state recognition instead of sitting down to negotiate with israel and being devil's advocate here of course isn't israel entitled to respond to such actions. well no i think that we must divide what the palestinians have done on the twenty ninth of november is one thing which is connected to the idea of keeping the two state solution is

a viable option. there is a deadlock in the negotiations and the retaliation of the israeli government i think works against her will you theresa at the end of the day will have to reach an agreement with the palestinians which is based on sixty seven borders give or take exchange of territory including the partition of jerusalem what the current israeli government is doing is actually breaking this opposition this very good proposition of being able to do something which eventually serves the interest of israel of and i believe that it is work a should engage the international we know the arab world and the palestinians which is bad and secondly part of it will not even take place because if there would be negotiations there won't be any more building so all together i think it goes against our own interests and for this reason i think it's a big mistake but there are big practical questions here too that need to be answered on some five hundred thousand israelis now live in the settlements where they're going to go if israel decides to dismantle the settlements. well there are

five hundred thousand to being divided at all two hundred thousand titles within jerusalem and there's a total agreement with the palestinian side in the negotiations in the past that all the two hundred will stay inside israel while we live we delineate the borders of jerusalem that we have east of object was the name in west jewish it was a lamb and all the neighborhoods east which are jews will become israeli in order to become palestinians and then we have the three hundred thousand in the west bank those approximately two hundred thousand out of them which are living very close to just sent to the green line would become part of israel within the exchange of territories and there is a minority of approximately eighty to one hundred thousand israelis which will have to be evacuated as happened in two thousand and five with our previous government of again shown in which israel evacuated approximately ten thousand which was just

a good example for the fact that we can make it so it's between us and peace will be standing one hundred thousand is where it's which we'll have to go over and be accepted and will be hard by israel and we compensated etc i believe that this is something which goes with the national interest of the majority of israelis there's real chief election of course in january will this whole settlement activity die down do you think for the votes just being ramped up particularly at the moment. undoubtedly the fact that in the three and a half weeks they're going to have elections is influencing mainly the vocabulary mainly their messages because today our prime minister and the stance that his soft belly today is not in the left in the center but rather in the right wing and the right wing is actually trying to provoke him to elevate his right wing position so settlements is definitely within the vocabulary of talking into the center. i

believe that between now and twenty second of january will see only elevation of the discourse from the climate into and around on the issue of settlements i hope that those will stay only messages which are connected to elections and not to the allergies and practices on the ground dr thanks for being with us tonight dr co-chair of the palestinian israeli peace ngo former director of the paris end of a peace as well much appreciated sir. now it says yes to egypt's new constitution the official results shows support of almost sixty four percent so that said in the last couple of minutes in fact but the opposition vows continued resistance no matter what we got more on that later in the program. poor people used to live in slums now the economically disadvantaged occupies substandard housing in the inner cities rioting voters with the cavalry

look behind the new american political lexicon of how it was semantics could buswell parties are really up to snuff. what do you see when you look at the scroll perhaps you wonder what bright future she'll have or maybe you feel sympathy for her because you see she's in a wheelchair but if you're t.s.a. agent then you see hard core terrorists skull finding a small amount of residue from explosives on the girl's hands she was detained for almost an hour and her tears for mercy did not move the inspectors to allow her mother to be with her as they took her away for further inspection said that the t.s.a. agents couldn't put two and two together and realize that people in wheelchairs get all sorts of random stuff on their hands because the wheels they push roll along

the ground when will these endless tales of bizarre instance of the t.s.a. stop when will they stop worrying about girls in wheelchairs what will they stop searching under a terminally ill woman's bandages and when will they actually catch a terrorist were to kill security feels a lot more like ridiculous tyranny to me but that's just my opinion.

sigrid laboratory was able to build a crude most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tombs mission to teach creation why it should care about humans and. this is why you should watch it only on our t.v. dot com. if you seventeen moscow time now the past hour has been confirmed that egypt's new constitution has been passed with a majority of sixty three point eight percent voting in favor opponents to continue the fight against adopting the islamist leading challenger though the official declaration was delayed while fraud investigations took place egypt's seen violent unrest and mass rival rallies in recent weeks the opposition slammed the referendum is fundamentally illegitimate but is sure from the institute of arab and islamic

studies told me earlier both the charter and the folks don't break the rules of democracy. this is the first. constitution that you have the first and not the egyptian column and cannot. you have a prime minister who is actually empowered to take decisions without going back to the first and so it empowers other center is other elected civilian centers of power but you. see the elections brought. to the to become the my job. what will happen if these islamist parties could not deliver on their promises could not have a guarantee a better security about the economic conditions i think what will happen the people will vote against them if you look at the voting behavior in egypt in the parliamentary elections around seventy percent voted for islamist party. parties and in the presidential elections around fifty one percent so their vote is

declining going down mainly because they are not permanent opposition and the more they have to deliver on the promises they cannot just for most while the not delivered so now people have expectations and they can control politicians by voting the pentagon's plan to sell high altitude spy drones to south korea the deal to provide for global whole pile of this aircraft so it's proven congress could be worth as much as one point two billion dollars political analyst niall boeing says that the pending deal could escalate the conflict with neighboring north korea which steadfastly protects its territory if congress is to be sold to south korea. is that they will use these drones to be demilitarized so the south korean border protection will be used to. receive gifts. remember that north korea is one of many times but its territorial integrity so i

think will happen is if south korean drones for example penetrate north korea south korean drones for example penetrate north korean conflict and if you look at the results of that latest offering elections the president will let him hey she can't deny the model of. reaching. into relations with north korea and no one will get easier in pyongyang but i think what this shows is that by purchasing these drones or having the intention to at least the ruling party doesn't really have any plans to change its foreign policy trajectory in any need for i don't think north korea will attack anyone unless it's her book first and if we look at reports coming out of south korea or south korea and the scientists that looked at the satellite this morning you orbit around me a small function and reports say that the machines were down on the but the galaxy three missile that they watched was very crude so i think what the real danger is and it is in north korea pursuing these tests and mistakingly you know having seen

debris falling on china or philippines or stuff where you're japan and killing a lot of people and tension. in the political fear through c.c. for pot he said change the script to suit to say when support is no going their way but are american voters willing to read between the lines and work out what's really meant it is going to. try to find out. the art of politics is made up of many things. handshakes smiles and a good arsenal of verbal camouflage americans have a lot of trouble dealing with reality americans have trouble facing the truth or as the late american comedian george carlin put it euphemistically language that conceals reality poor people used to live in the slums now the economically disadvantaged occupy substandard housing in the inner cities. and their her. they don't have a negative cash flow position. and today america's love affair with

semantics has given birth to a new phrase to describe the rich job creators in america basically are on strike increasing taxes on job creators this administration and this president policies are hostile to job creators that have a saying the wealthy who make over two hundred fifty thousand a year if you say a job creator they say well we can't raise their taxes they're the ones or create jobs when in reality when their taxes are higher under bill clinton three times as many jobs are created the propensity to add softer terms to the english lexicon has surged over the decades particularly when it comes to military related language there's a condition in combat most people know about it it's when a fighting person's nervous system has been stressed to its absolute peak and maximum can't take anymore and puts the nervous system has either snapped or is about to snap. in the first world war that condition was called shows today the same condition is known as an eight syllable hyphenated furries void of any emotion

post-traumatic stress disorder the aftermath of war includes post-traumatic stress . disorder for those of you suffering from p.t.s.d. when it comes to war where you have the most damaging euphemisms like when and so saying innocent civilians were killed in a drone strike you say there was collateral damage collateral damages to me is the worst expression no it's innocent men women and children were killed in the collateral damage so that the real estate transaction our soldiers shooting each other has become known as friendly fire kidnapping and transferring terrorist suspect is called extraordinary rendition and the torture america's war prisoners might endure is referred to as enhanced interrogation in most cases these new words are used by people who try to define an argument or frame it in a way that will support the position that they're advocating and during the last u.s. presidential election a certain demographic of voters became otherwise known as without what when from

asian voters bother went to twitter at two o'clock today to encourage low information voters think low information voters are stupid people but you say low information voters because it sounds nice although in their defense it could be people who are just too busy you know with their lives or family in their work or they don't have time to focus on the election until the very last minute and then they vote based on the hairstyle of the candidate running for president as america's political elites continues creating new vocabulary to soften the hard truth a greater focus could instead be put into asking why so many issues need to be rephrased before being presented to the public george carlin created comedy about the strategy but it was george orwell who first coined a term for it newspeak reporting from new york. r.t. . the military aircraft crashed in southern ca six times killed all twenty seven people on board here the acting head of the country's border guard was among the passengers who were thought to include a senior military personnel to the seventy two near the city of shouldn't kent and

seven pm local time no indication yet about what went wrong. in other news police in bahrain of used to go so more anti-government protest is continuing an intense crackdown on public gatherings the demonstrators want the prime minister to quit and this new democratically elected government did was also say leading a human rights campaign it said you see for stay in jail for the fifty days he was caged for writing about the crackdown on twitter meanwhile the country's just wrapped up for gulf economic and military summit. school bus this past weeks in china at least eleven preschools in preschool children long called their principal was behind the wheel of a corner plunged into a lake she was arrested for dangerous driving and all suspicion of overloading the bus ticket garden will also be closed no because it was found to be operating without a license. the health of venezuela president hugo chavez has reportedly improved he called a respiratory infection after his latest cancer surgery in cuba the country's vice

president said on state t.v. that chavez is up and it started exercising its raised hopes therefore that was going to tell you can all racial may still go ahead a few months after his reelection in a tight. i as we begin to say goodbye to twenty twelve are to remembers what the year brought us all today our news teams recall the austerity anger that took hold in europe. it came to the point where if you walked into the studio you knew there was going to be a story about europe and austerity and protests and riots whether it would be spain or greece or even the u.k. and these were real people in real situations in very scary situations and our

correspondents were out there in the midst of it all. so we actually we all sat still stood over some type of square and i just see the come around behind the camera everybody else around me putting gas masks on you for moscow going to see your life before you can say anything you get that horrible taste in your mouth and of course it's the tear gas that's become so synonymous with these demonstrations in greece along with the firing of molotov cocktails and clashes with the place the producers like to see their correspondents in the middle of a crowd which is great but then the crowd the shouting the correspondents try to speak out everyone's very loud you can't hear anything that makes for good television. it's an incredible event covering it is pretty exciting you've got political elements you use the elements in the course force you've got the tragic human stories of people who are driven to desperation and pushed onto the streets to protest what they see is their livelihood to be chopped away over to pay back these massive. people to think it's about spain's crippling unemployment figures

especially amongst the young about the cost of the state the study says and then you really get a sense of just how angry how desperate people. get the full of love that's doing to the country and so yes it's not in the middle of one of these big protest movements when the clashes break out. a lot more from our team looking back at the year just gone in the coming days right said to me because with me i dimitri i have a bit of a lonely soul really today has been a quiet. christmas day and run a lot of the world and of russia as a normal day. not a creature was stirring not even a mouse you could say like the night before christmas but in one industry there's a moan really going on that's the toy industry because some of the biggest players a release of the year for the toy. are the figures that giants like hasbro and mattel have noticed that kids these years want something different rather than

a toy a tablet computer. technological progress. so i'll tell you more about that and i've gotten a couple of minutes ok. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew. was a big issue. decades . if you had fifty people killing each other in any other country there would be.